History - MA Programme content
Key information
Key Information
- Complete full-time in one year.
- On- campus and online modules available.
- Flexible approach to delivery. There is a blended delivery available for students, with an option to take weekly online lectures and one on-campus day per semester.
Students can also decide to take a majority of on-campus modules.
- Modules taught during autumn and spring semesters.
Students will work in collaboration with their supervisors on the dissertations during the summer semester.
- Submit a dissertation at the end of the summer semester.
- Full-time students take 2 core modules and 2 elective modules in autumn; 3 core modules and 1 elective module in spring.
- Option to undertake a Public History Internship in spring semester.
You will learn through a blend of
- Lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities.
- Reflective practice and guided research.
- Regular feedback from faculty and peers.
Programme content
Core Modules
- Concepts and Methods (HI6131) introduces students to core theoretical issues that confront all historical researchers such as objectivity, relativism and narrative. (Delivered on-campus).
- Historical Research in Practice I (HI6211) provides an insight into the research techniques, historiographical concerns, and analytical approaches deployed by professional historians in research papers. (Blended delivery - options to be delivered on-campus and online).
Electives – choose 2
- Art and power in the age of the Tudors and Stuarts (HII6121) - (Delivered on-campus)
- Graduate Seminar in Irish Cultural History (HI6191) - (Delivered online)
- Linking Families to Communities (HI6061) - (Delivered online)
- University and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (HI6221) - (Delivered on-campus)
- The Evolution of the Irish Town, 1609-1960 (HI6212) - (Delivered on-campus)
- History of Art and Architecture Survey Module (HI6231) - (Blended delivery - options to be delivered on-campus and online)
The elective module offering will vary from year-to-year and will be confirmed closer to the starting date of the programme. You can contact the Course Director to enquire about the annual module offering.
Optional Module
- Beginners’ ecclesiastical Latin (MU6071) - (Delivered on-campus)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Core Modules
- History Research Seminar (HI6002) trains students in the techniques of organising and presenting research, and to think across methodological and discipline boundaries. (online delivery).
- Historical Research in Practice II (HI6312) exposes students to the challenges of historical research particularly in relation to project design, primary source analysis, and the presentation of research findings. Blended delivery (on-campus and online options).
- Directed Reading in History (HI6222) facilitates the development of skills of historical analysis through concentrated study of a specific topic that aligns with the research expertise of faculty. Blended delivery (on-campus and online options).
Electives – choose 1
- The Long War in Ireland, 1968-98 (HI6302) - on-campus module.
- Public History Internship (HI6792).
- People on the move: studying migration (HI6062) - online delivery.
The elective module offering will vary from year-to-year and will be confirmed closer to the starting date of the programme. You can contact the Course Director to enquire about the annual module offering.
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Core module
- Dissertation (HI6043) students will demonstrate their ability to write a high-level research article on an agreed topic.
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
